6-16-09
Hi. Got a couple of cool things going on this month, liiiike...
Litany for the Whale now available for pre order!
For a limited time, The Perpetual Motion Machine and MolSook are offering a special package deal during pre order season of Litany for the Whale's "Dolores." The record comes out on July 13th, but if you order from either of us before then, you can get the white vinyl, along with both exclusive label colors for $30. After the record is out, the Red w/Black Haze will only be available from PMM, and the Coke Bottle Blue w/ Black Haze from MolSook...
LITANY FOR THE WHALE- DOLORES
12" EP
On their debut EP, this four-piece exploit a gruffer take on heavy music, surrounding
it with wailing feedback, darkened ambiance, and harmonious melodies. The end
result is a chaotic and complex mix of hardcore, punk and metal elements, soaked
with devastating levels of distortion, bass, and layered vocals. Their 23+ minute,
7-song EP was recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA by Eric Leavell,
with mastering handled by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, IL.
Pressed on white vinyl with limited variations on coke bottle clear w/ black
haze from MolSook and translucent red w/ black haze from The Perpetual Motion
Machine. The record will come packaged in heavy, black and white jackets with
beautiful artwork created by Chris Taylor (Pg99, Pygmy Lush).
Also, look for LFTW on their West Coast tour with fellow MolSookians, ¡APESHIT! starting this weekend!
June, 19 - Oakland, CA @ The Yellow Room w/ Apeshit,
Dark Castle, Spires
June, 20 -Richmond, CA @ Burnt Ramen w/ Apeshit, John Cota, Calculator, Mystery
Dope
June, 21 -Santa Rosa, CA @ Ol’ Dick’s House!! 870 Third St. w/ Apeshit
June, 22-Chico, CA @ Under Western Eyes w/ Apeshit + more TBA
June, 23-Portland, OR @ The Know w/ APESHIT and The Erns.
June, 24 -Portland, OR @ The Neve Campbell w/ Apeshit, Kidcrash, Shat
June, 25 -Olympia, WA @ 1001 State Ave. w/ Apeshit and more TBA
June, 26 -Seattle, WA @ SHEBANG HOUSE w/ Apeshit, Degania
June, 27- Bainbridge, WA Backyard Show!! w/ Apeshit
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GULL!!!!
Hot on the heels of LFTW comes a project that I've been giddy (that's right GIDDY!) about since its initial conception: GULL
Anyone that’s been living in Richmond, VA for the past few years will tell
you that wherever you hang out, you’re bound to eventually witness the
sounds and sight of GULL around our town. In random street performances, and
various appearances at restaurants, art openings, and of course at shows, GULL
provides the perfect soundtrack to the thriving artistic stomping ground that
we call our home. His unique style of mixing proggy space rock and Dischord-ish
punk with Eastern styled vocal chants creates a driving atmospheric environment
that sounds like Yes, Fugazi, Rush, and the Jesus Lizard
in a drunken planetarium brawl. (Or in a Looney Tunes-animated opium den, you
choose.)
Hear a new UNMASTERED
GULL song here.
Watch GULL play a song here.
GULL is the solo musical/visual
art project of Nate Rappole from Ultra Dolphins and Snack Truck.
The followup to his “Bedouin Lover” demo will be pressed on three
different color variations and will include a download card for MP3s, as well
as some visual goodies. GULL recorded these four songs with Steve Roche at Permanent
Hearing Damage in Philly, PA from May 29th-31st.
And because once you hear his music, you’ll want to see it for yourself,
here is GULL’s preliminary tour schedule. Get in touch if you would like
to help!
Jul 31 Harrisonburg, Virginia
Aug 1 Raleigh, North Carolina
Aug 2 TBA
Aug 3 Birmingham, Alabama
Aug 4 Pensacola, Florida
Aug 5 New Orleans, Louisiana
Aug 6 Texas
Aug 7 Austin, Texas
Aug 8 Austin, Texas
Aug 9 Mobile, Alabama
Aug 11 Florida
Aug 12 Florida
Aug 13 Richmond, Virginia
5-16-9
Howdy! Ive been excited to finally announce this for a while now...Litany for the Whale is a band that came out of left field (Santa Rosa, CA to be exact). These guys had been looking for somebody to release their debut EP, and after listening to it, I couldnt believe they were offering this to me! Why nobody prior had dropped everything they were doing to get these tunes onto some vinyl, Ill never know, but Im glad to have the opportunity. This 12" EP is a split release with my friend Paul at The Perpetual Motion Machine, and I have to say that Im very stoked to be working with him on a release again. (See Thank God/Tigershark 10")
And before you ask, GULL is still on schedule!!!
(Write up below)
LITANY
FOR THE WHALE "Dolores" 12" EP
Coming Soon from MolSook & The Perpetual Motion Machine
MolSook in collaboration with The
Perpetual Motion Machine,
will be releasing the explosive debut 12" EP from Santa Rosa, CA’s
LITANY FOR THE WHALE. On their debut EP, this four-piece exploit
a gruffer take on heavy music, surrounding it with wailing
feedback, darkened ambiance, and harmonious melodies. The end result
is a chaotic and complex mix of hardcore, punk and metal elements,
soaked with devastating levels of distortion, bass, and layered vocals.
Though relatively new, LFTW have more than proven
themselves over the
past year, logging several tours independently and alongside Pygmy
Lush, Tideland, and Ghastly City Sleep. The band will hit the road
again this summer, sharing west coast tours alongside iApeshit! and others,
with plans for a full US tour in early fall 2009.
Their 23+ minute, 7-song EP was recorded at Prairie
Sun Studios in
Cotati, CA by Eric Leavell, with mastering handled by Carl Saff at
Saff Mastering in Chicago, IL.
Currently in production for a late June release,
"Dolores" will be
pressed on white vinyl with limited variations on coke bottle clear w/
black haze from MolSook and translucent red w/ black haze from The
Perpetual Motion Machine. The record will come packaged in heavy,
black and white jackets with beautiful artwork created by Chris Taylor
(Pg99, Pygmy Lush). A CD version is expected later in the summer on
Boston, MA's Teenage Disco Bloodbath Records.
Ordering information will be posted in the coming
weeks. In the
meantime, check out a song from the 12" on LFTW's myspace page below.
http://www.myspace.com/litanyforthewhale
3-12-9
FOOD LP has been OUT for awhile NOW!
Hello.
The FOOD LP has been out for about a month and a half now and the feedback has been great!
Check out what our friends at Lambgoat thought of it.
And then there is Punknews.org.
And dont forget about Aversionline.com.
And is now a good time to mention that WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST 100 COPIES OF THE FIRST PRESSING!?!
FOOD is still available directly from us, or from the following distributors: No Idea, Ebullition, Interpunk, Stickfigure, and oveseas, BifAufsMesser, and Denovali.
GULL 7" Coming This Spring!
MolSook's next release is going to be our first 7" for our favorite one-man-band, GULL! Words can't describe the sounds that this mystery man conjures up. But if I was forced to try, I'd have to tell you that it's a combination of surfy drums wrestling with noisey twangy guitar, and complimented with a whole lot of vocal gibberish. All around fun! But since that attempt at a description was a complete failure, I suggest you see GULL for yourself. You'll get what I mean....see GULL here.
Distro Update!
Also, check out the online store for some new stuff recently added.
Personally, I cannot get enough of the PYGMY LUSH/TURBOSLUT spilt LP, and the CIVILIZATION CDR Demo. The AMATEUR PARTY 7" is also an amazingly well put together package with a whole lot of soul behind it. Lookout!
Thank you!
1-5-9
FOOD LP Now Available for Pre-Order!
(To skip the bullshit and hear a song, go here)
Im very excited to awaken my label from its 13 month slumber with the grungy
low end sounds of a low key Richmond band called FOOD
(see FOOD worship rant in prior post). Pre orders will be shipped out at the
end of January. Also, in celebration of the FOOD LP’s release, I am selling
the other releases at a cheap price. You can place a pre-order here,
or below...
*artwork by Jules Buck Jones
"FOOD plays muddy rock, with misanthropic themes, appealing to
fans of the punky grunge that first came from the Pacific Northwest and the
hardcore dirges that followed. Instead of crawling into the bong and relying
on sludge-rock parlor tricks, FOOD cranks up the speed and excitement, and injects
their music with a positive element, celebrating the beauty of nature. This
is granite rock, not stoner rock.
These lyrical themes – the inferiority of
human angst as compared to the might and splendor of the natural world –
mirror the lives of these musicians who call Richmond, Virginia home base. Like
Haley's Comet, or a rotation of the earth, FOOD is only in full view once in
a long while. Guitarist and principle songwriter Johnny Fink spends his summers
as a Park Ranger in the western national parks, while drummer Jeff Grant roves
between Virginia and Indiana, playing guitar and singing in a pop-punk band.
Only taking breaks to coax the lowest end possible from his bass, Ryan McLennan
typically retreats into his Richmond art studio, creating Audubon-inspired paintings.
Imagine a tree root making its way through a
full stack. A cymbal's crash echoing across a canyon while the sound of a drop-tuned
guitar mirrors the call of a wild bird. That is FOOD, as enjoyed in rare captivity
for five songs on this self-titled forty-minute album, available on 180-gram
vinyl from Molsook Records. Listen then leave, remembering the songs while you
breathe mountain air."
-CT Terry
ORDER HERE!
8-11-8
Hello...So I FINALLY got this website launched! In the next few weeks I will be updating the online store, adding artist bios, and announcing some records on the horizon...But for now its time to tell you all about the next release....
The very first show I went to after moving to Richmond, VA in 2003 was for a local band called FOOD. A friend of mine encouraged me to go, saying that being a fan of Melvins and all that kind of stuff, FOOD was a band I would absolutely love. One minute into their opening long winded intro, I conceded that he was right. The bassist hammered out on an open drop D in syncopation with steady loud snare hits that reminded me of the opener on Melvins' Gluey Porch Treatments. A Fender Strat through a Marshall full stack was relentless with feedback laden barred chord run downs decending into Karp-like grooves. And noisey vocals not too unlike that of Unsane were icing on the cake! With one taste of their first song and the look of their set up, these dudes were definitely going for loud and heavy. But in a time where it was starting to become pretentious to have a shit ton of amps to mask bland open chord "stoner rock," I could tell that FOOD's music meant something more to them. They were paying homage to the bands they loved and carrying on what their influences introduced to them while having fun with it the whole time through. They cranked out grungy music that felt so akin to my high school days, I almost couldn't accept them being written after 1995. This band hit me right in the chest and nailed the reasons that I fell in love with this music to begin with. When I realized that I couldn't stop smiling through their entire set, I decided that FOOD was the band I had been wanting to exist. Unfortunately this was to be their last show before a long hiatus while their guitarist and main song writer went back out West to work for nature conservation.
But 5 years later, I'm very excited to announce that the next MolSook release is FOOD's long overdue LP! FOOD plays loud and heavy, similar to the quicker thrashy songs on Karp's Suplex, or even Nirvana's Bleach, to the slower grooves of Sleep's Holy Mountain and The Melvins. This release will consist of five environmentally themed songs (40 minutes) written in the soggy NorthWest, honed in dirty Richmond, VA, and captured on some nice 180 gram vinyl. The record will be a pressing of 300, and the artwork will be supplied by the visual madman Jules Buck Jones. Recorded last October in Philly by Steve Roche at Permanent Hearing Damage and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Isis, Torche, Converge) at New Alliance East.
FOOD consists of members from Virginia bands like Churl, Pink Razors, Wilderness
Medicine, Stop It!, & Tigershark (sort of) But don’t listen for these
credentials...you won't hear them!
FOOD is definitely music for people who enjoy bands like Hammerhead, Godhead Silo, Unsane, Nirvana, C Average, Karp, Houdini-era Melvins, and most of the louder AmRep bands you can think of.
I couldn't be more stoked about this record!
xoxo,
MSR